Dear all!
I'm reporting you an annoying problem I'm dealing with since some time. Every time a flash applet is playing a sound (even a very simple "beep") within firefox, the alsa device gets locked and the only way to have audio back to other programs is to close firefox.

Though, of course, Flash 9 should have detected and used ALSA, instead of OSS, so that might not be solution to this problem, just a suggestion... You might also want to stop any sound daemons (jackd, esd, artsd) and try again...

erroneus

21st June 2007, 10:24 PM

I have has the same problem... still do. Surely there is a better solution that prepending "aoss" to the beginning of the firefox command...?

Seve

21st June 2007, 10:47 PM

Hello:
Are you using KDE ?

Seve

erroneus

21st June 2007, 10:57 PM

No, I'm using GNOME. I don't understand why any of that should be an issue. The Flash plugin should behave better than this.

Seve

21st June 2007, 11:20 PM

No, I'm using GNOME. I don't understand why any of that should be an issue. The Flash plugin should behave better than this.
Hello:
The reason I asked about KDE as it has been known in the past [arts] to be hanging around and blocking other audio apps/devices.

The flashplugin I have installed here is Shockwave Flash 9.0 r31
and I have no problems with it.

Seve

drhilbert

22nd June 2007, 06:52 AM

I'm using KDE but it seems not to be the problem. And the funny thing is that on my laptop (a DELL D610) I have the same software configuration and ICH6 and flash is perfectly working. On the desktop I have ICH7 and it is not!

I've also reported a bug to alsa, but they claim that if it is working with ICH6 it has to work with ICH7

Any other ideas?

ramasees

22nd June 2007, 07:21 AM

i dont know if this will help at all, but i have intel High Definition Audio Controller and the way i solved mine was to download the latest alsa (14rc4)driver and configured it like:=
./configure --with-cards=hda-intel
make
make install